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Affective forecasting is the forecasting of one's emotional state. Such prediction is affected by various kinds of cognitive biases. Daniel Gilbert (social psychology at Harvard University) and researcherlike Timothy Wilson (University of Virginia) and George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University), have studied these cognitive biases, calling them "empathy gap" and "impact bias".
Examples of the impact bias include over-estimating emotional reactions to elections, movie clips, Valentine's Day, football games, etc. Reasons for the impact bias include focalism (people focus too much on the target event, ignoring peripheral activities that may later occupy their attention and impact their emotional state) and immune neglect (people tend to neglect the role their coping resources will later play in ameliorating distressing affects). As such, those with effective coping strategies are actually more prone to biased affective forecasts.
Example of citations about Affective forecasting:
How we forecast our feelings, and whether those predictions match our future emotional states, had never been the stuff of laboratory research. But in scores of experiments, Gilbert, Wilson, Kahneman and Loewenstein have made a slew of observations and conclusions that undermine a number of fundamental assumptions: namely, that we humans understand what we want and are adept at improving our well-being — that we are good at maximizing our utility, in the jargon of traditional economics. Further, their work on prediction raises some unsettling and somewhat more personal questions. To understand affective forecasting, as Gilbert has termed these studies, is to wonder if everything you have ever thought about life choices, and about happiness, has been at the least somewhat naive and, at worst, greatly mistaken.
—Jon Gertner, "The Futile Pursuit of Happiness," The New York Times, September 7, 2003
People are generally unaware of the operation of the system of cognitive mechanisms that ameliorate their experience of negative affect (the psychological immune system), and thus they tend to overestimate the duration of their affective reactions to negative events. This tendency was demonstrated in 6 studies in which participants overestimated the duration of their affective reactions to the dissolution of a romantic relationship, the failure to achieve tenure, an electoral defeat, negative personality feedback, an account of a child's death, and being rejected by a prospective employer.
—Daniel T Gilbert et al., "Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting," Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, September 1, 1998
SUSAN FISKE: Can we become more accurate in affective forecasting?
DANIEL GILBERT: Probably, but first we should ask whether or not we want to. It's very easy to see somebody making a logical error and say, "Well, you ought not to have made it." But logical errors can serve an important purpose in human cognition. Imagine a world in which some people realize that external events have much less impact than others believe they do. Those who make that realization might not be particularly motivated to change the external events. But one of the reasons we protect our children, for example, is that we believe we would be devastated if they were harmed or killed. So these predictions may be very effective in motivating us to do the things we as a society need to do, even though they might be inaccurate on an individual level. Anyone who wanted to cure affective forecasters of their inferential ills would be wise to measure both the costs and benefits of forecasting errors.
—"Forecasting the future: why our inability to predict emotion may be beneficial," Psychology Today, November, 2002
Academic research about Affective forecasting includes:
Dunn & Laham.doc – A typical paper on affective forecasting
"The research reviewed in this chapter underscores the importance of everyday emotional time travel. People's predictions about how they will feel in the future shape many of their decisions, though under certain conditions people place surprisingly little weight on their affective forecasts in decision-making. Supporting the validity of decisions that are based on affective forecasts, most studies suggest that forecasts do reliably predict experiences, though we know relatively little about when, why, and for whom the relationship between forecasts and experiences is stronger or weaker. We do know that specific biases in forecasting can be readily eliminated, and there is a smattering of recent evidence that some people may be better forecasters than others. Finally, while common forms of affective forecasting errors may not interfere with the survival of our species, the shortcomings of emotional time travel have important ramifications for individual, interpersonal, and societal well-being."
Decisions and Revisions: The Affective Forecasting of Changeable Outcomes
People prefer to make changeable decisions rather than unchangeable decisions because they do not realize that they may be more satisfied with the latter. Photography students believed that having the opportunity to change their minds about which prints to keep would not influence their liking of the prints. However, those who had the opportunity to change their minds liked their prints less than those who did not (Study 1). Although the opportunity to change their minds impaired the postdecisional processes that normally promote satisfaction (Study 2a), most participants wanted to have that opportunity (Study 2b). The results demonstrate that errors in affective forecasting can lead people to behave in ways that do not optimize their happiness and well-being.


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The big story this season is the Arts Club's golden anniversary. Over the past 50 years, the Arts Club hasn't just solidified its place as Vancouver's most important theatre company, but is well-established as one of Canada's most influential theatre producers. After all, how many other theatre companies anywhere on the planet have three stages to call their own?
OK, one other company that now has three stages to fill and is doing an impressive job of finding exciting shows to fill them is The Cultch (formerly the Vancouver East Cultural Centre). When the East Van landmark remodelled and added a second stage (the Vancity Culture Lab), it would have been tough to imagine they would soon be adding a third stage.
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But this Christmas, they are taking over and reopening the newly renovated York Theatre on Commercial Drive.
The big blockbusters this fall are likely to be a couple of shows best known from their big-screen incarnations: Mary Poppins, and The Wizard of Oz. Meanwhile, the city's small theatre companies will do what small theatre companies have always done — pop up in venues everywhere, presenting performances driven by passion. Here are 10 productions to watch for this fall (OK, I've snuck in an 11th):
Best of season
It's Snowing On Saltspring
Nov. 28 to Dec. 28 | Granville Island Stage
Tickets and info: from $29 at artsclub.com or 604-687-1644
There's not a lot of nostalgia on display in the Arts Club's 50th anniversary lineup, but Vancouver's venerable theatre is celebrating one of their most-popular homegrown hits, the locally made holiday classic It's Snowing On Saltspring. When Nicola Cavendish unleashed her holiday comedy in 1985, the biggest draw was Nicola Cavendish, a blizzard of comic energy. Over the years, the play proved it has Christmas presence beyond its author's onstage magic.
"It's Snowing On Saltspring is one of our most popular shows for the Christmas season, so it made sense to bring it back for the 50th," Arts Club artistic director Bill Millerd told The Sun. "Nicola's charming take on the frantic Christmas Eve preparations at the North Pole neatly dovetails with the dysfunctional family in denial tucked away on Saltspring Island."
This season's remount features some of the city's finest and funniest performers — Juno Ruddell, Andrew McNee, Deborah Williams, Joel Wirkkunen and Beatrice Zeilinger. The Arts Club is also bringing back last year's sold-out holiday smash The Santaland Diaries, with comedy star Ryan Beil returning to share the adventures of a department-store elf, courtesy of American humorist David Sedaris (Nov. 21 to Dec. 21 at the Revue Stage).
Other notable events
You Should Have Stayed Home — A G20 Romp
Sept. 24 to Oct. 5 | Firehall Arts Centre
Tickets and info: from $20 at firehallartscentre.ca or 604-689-0926
This new show at the Firehall should be a gas — a tear gas. In 2010, Tommy Taylor went to check out the G20 protests in Toronto and was swept up in Canada's biggest mass arrests since the blockades at Clayoquot Sound. Taylor's acclaimed solo show evolved out of a Facebook post about his experiences that went viral, and now his performance is doing the same.
Armstrong's War
Oct. 17 to Nov. 9 | Revue Stage
Tickets and info: from $25 at artsclub.com or 604-687-1644
The Revue season kicks off with the world premiere of a new play by Colleen Murphy, fresh off a workshop at the Finborough Theatre in London. Starring Mik Byskov and Matreya Scarrwener and directed by Mindy Parfitt, Armstrong's War tells the story of a 12-year-old Pathfinder who tries to earn a merit badge by reading stories to a 21-year-old soldier who was injured in Afghanistan.
Sounds seriously intriguing. Scout's honour.
Oct. 31 to Nov. 10 | Pacific Theatre
Tickets and info: from $19.99 at pacifictheatre.org or 604-731-5518
The return of Roy Surette alone makes the latest Ruby Slippers Theatre production a must see.
The Vancouver director whose last gig in the city was the Arts Club co-production of Don Quixote with the theatre he now runs — Montreal's Centaur — is coming home to direct a new show by one of the country's smartest playwrights, Daniel MacIvor.
Surette told The Sun: "It's a rare treat for me to be back on the coast, and the bonus is getting to work with a few of my favourite gal pals." They include the shows three stars — Diane Brown, Marcie Nestman and Kerry Sandomirsky.
Mary Poppins
Nov. 7 to Jan. 5 | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
Tickets and info: from $29 at artsclub.com or 604-687-1644
Mary Poppins is the Arts Club's big show this fall. Starring Sara-Jeanne Hosie as the magical nanny, this new adaptation by Julian Fellowes (creator of Downton Abbey) features a mix of the original music and lyrics from the beloved movie classic and all-new music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The new version is deeper and richer than the Disney classic, but a spoonful of sugar shouldn't be required to help this show go down easily.
The Wizard of Oz
Nov. 5 to 10 | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Tickets and info: from $50.65 at ticketmaster.ca
Are you off to see the wizard? The Broadway Across America production of The Wizard of Oz based on the beloved movie musical includes classics from the Academy Award-winning score mixed with all-new songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Toto keeps the cats away, but the production promises flying monkeys and the Wicked Witch from her pre-Wicked days, before she was oppressed and misunderstood.
The Romeo Initiative
Nov. 15 to 23 | Vancity Culture Lab
Tickets and info: from $22 at tickets.thecultch.com or at 604-251-1363
Wherefore art thou Romeo, and who art thou Romeo? Vancouver-based playwright Trina Davies was nominated for a Governor General's award for her sizzling script, The Romeo Initiative, which is so intricate that saying much more than "go see it" feels like it gives away too much of this cool Cold War romantic thriller. Touchstone Theatre, one of the city's most dependable companies, is producing this compelling three-hander at the Vancity Culture Lab — starring Daniel Arnold, Lindsey Angell and Stephanie Izsak and directed by Kartina Dunn.
Except in the Unlikely Event of War
Nov. 15 to 30 | The Roundhouse in Yaletown
Tickets and info: from $16 at pitheatre.com or 604-872-1861
Robert Moloney (who just picked up a Jessie Award for his role in Clybourne Park) and Josette Jorge (who sparkled in several plays last season) star in this Pi Theatre and Horseshoes & Hand Grenades presentation of this world premiere A Canadian political satire by Sean Devine (Re: Union) at a time Canadian politics cry out for satirizing, the show takes on art, politics and war.
The Daisy Theatre
Nov. 26 to Dec. 15 | Historic Theatre at the Cultch
Tickets and info: from $31.43 at tickets.thecultch.com or 604-251-1363
Puppet-master Ronnie Burkett returns to Vancouver with The Daisy Theatre. Burkett's puppetry has earned him well-deserved global kudos, and his puppet shows do for puppets what Miyazaki does for animation. Burkett's shows are practically their own genre. The Daisy Theatre is inspired by early Paris cabaret and underground puppet shows in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and the production features short plays by 10 Canadian writers with every performance guaranteed to be different. The Cultch is so sure you'll love this one, they are offering a special "see it twice" price.
East Van Panto
Dec. 4 to 29 | Vancity Culture Lab
Tickets and info: from $17.14 at tickets.thecultch.com or 604-251-1363
You won't want to miss the grand reopening of the newest incarnation of the York Theatre on Commercial as The Cultch teams up with Theatre Replacement to present a very Vancouver Christmas pageant by Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille (music and lyrics) and Charles Demers (script). The Canadian take on classic British Christmas cheese features Patti Allan, Allan Zinyk, Raugi Yu, Dawn Petten, Maiko Bae Yamamoto and Hille, who will be playing along in true panto style.


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China's rising wages feed robotics boom
Rising wages in China may be squeezing the profits of many manufacturers -- but they are also feeding a boom in the robotics industry.
Wages in China's cities rose 12.4% last year, while in rural areas they were boosted by 21.9%, according to figures from China's National Bureau of Statistics.
While that may be good for workers, manufacturers are softening the blow to their balance sheets by turning to robotics -- which are cheaper, faster and deliver high quality.
China is the fastest growing market in robotics, and by 2014 it will top the global market, according to the International Federation of Robotics.
One company seeking to tap this demand is German-based KUKA Robotics, which is setting up a regional hub in the country.
"With the increase in the wages we can see a big automation wave coming," said Till Reuter, chief executive of KUKA Robotics.
"China is the market that is still growing, and growing at a fast pace compared to Europe and the U.S., " he said. "China will be the biggest robotic market, so it is important to be here."
The auto industry, for example, is becoming increasingly reliant on robotics. China is the world's largest auto market and European car manufacturers are setting up facilities in the region, all of which will be reliant on robotics.
BMW opened a new plant in Shenyang last month and Volkswagen plans to double its capacity to four million cars by 2018, by investing in three new plants in Yizheng, Foshan and Ningbo and upgrading existing ones in Changchun, Nanjing and Chengdu.
China's robotics industry still lags that in other countries. In Japan, for example, there are 306 robots working per 10,000 people while in China there are currently only 15.
KUKA plans to capture the potential by producing more efficient models that will continue to drive down costs for manufacturers.
"Our advantage is innovation," said Reuter, "we need to keep it alive and work towards the next generation. It gives us an advantage in China, but also in the rest of the world."
As China's robotics industry catches up with others, the country's manufacturers are also looking at other ways to bring in income.
Investment in branding and marketing is one way to boost profits, according to Alistair Thornton, a senior analyst at IHS Global Insight.
"Manufacturers will think --- hold on, if we put money into branding and charge more for products, we can retain our margin," said Thornton.


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First: the political news from the Bay State: Democrats got, at the very least a"bloody nose" in the most "Democtratic" of states (read more honestly as entrenched Oligarchal Democrats) especially related to the loss of the corner office on Beacon Hill to the Democratic Candidate in Tuesday's Elections. I have not received full reports for all offices and I suspect that many of you don't care (a) are disgruntled (b) or remain a bit confused.
One of my best friends died that die and if I and my memory recover I will fill in some blanks. My Law office is in south Plymouth and Republican Vincent Macedo won. He was my friend and -get this for democracy in action-he does not come from a wealthy family and relied on a true grass roots campaign to get into office ("get in" is not appropriate-let's say WON)
Edward Markey, with whom I attend Law School decades ago ran unopposed, but that is the other side of the Massachusetts political world and, lacking any republican or other influential friends, Ed REALLY helped me out on a couple of immigration problems. If you think you can run an immigration matter, without experience, and without political assistance, Think the matter over again. The "other" long time incumbent Senator would not deal with giving assistance to a client in this area if an attorney was involved.
But, when I put this choice before my client, who wished to try and bring Senator (-----------) on board, he chose me, and I got lucky.
Second, from pictorial evidence on line, the naval version of the F-35 is at least undergoing trials at sea. You will recall that F-16 critics nearly brought THAT program to a halt during readiness trial period because of "chafing" of the harnesses running the control wiring from place a. to place b. inside the aircraft, and thus subjected it to many unnecessary failures and deaths.
More importantly, you will recall the Russians 'sold' on of their "supercarriers" (nee' Kusnetzov I believe) to the Chinese. While this was accomplished, the French for the 100th time at least annoyed its NATO allies (it can honestly be said that only Turkey has been less cooperative if the comparison was based on matters in the "Islamic" World. As one character responded in the "The Kingdom" (in which I can recall that Jason Bateman was featured at least (I will check the movie for other actors as I own a copy, but I am a little exhausted today.
Well, in any event, unbeknownst to the already disillusion self re: NATO cooperation re: France and Turkey, the Russians contracted for at least two of the "Mistrale" (Mistral?) Helicopter carriers to be built by France for the Russian Navy. These "Carriers" appear to be quite similar in design and concept to and fair number of ships: 1. the Illustrious Class-of which two or three were built. the name ship of the class, of course, brought the "jump jet's versatility" and combat worthiness to our attention in 1982. Thanks to the Reagan administration's contribution of the "Sidewinder AAM-9/L" which made life difficult or permanently shorter for what I reckoned was a decent Argentiine Airforce flying French Mirage III's (I ask correction on this) and U S A-4 Skyhawks. Borh of which extracted the highest toll of any Argentine force (aka Fuerzas Armadas) involved, sinking the landing ship Sir Galahad with considerable loss of life. I also recall that the container ship "Atlantic Conveyor was near hit and the then new Frigate/destroyer "Sheffield" (nicknamed the "shiny sheff" by a certain portion of the British public, probably those in the environs of Sheffield.
The French have thus far declined to release the ships, at least partially paid for, but contracted for before the re-annexation of the Crimea and blatant support of Russian/Ukrainians in the ongoing civil war. The French and probably the rest of nato (setting aside the Turks) to go to Canada. What the resolution of this matter will be is of course, anyone's guess. I suggest (ha) the following scenario to the administration, buy the ships and sell the (on the installment plan) to Canada and let the Russians go to court to get their money back. Putin is, imho a bad man and I would not sell him an air rifle if he lived in Antarctica.. I had suggested that the quid pro quo of the Russians non interference, was not to put 'heavy heat " on them about and in Chechniya.
Since it appears (a repeat of a prior supposition) the Russian problem in Chechniya was under control, a different policy with regards to the West was, to me at least, inevitable. I think the US and NATO would have been happy to stand with Russia to face the resurgent power of Islam and its many faces, but it equally seems that Putin's Russia is being put in a historically similar situation to that which France faced after the end of its "Imperial Period" and it loss to Prusso/Germany (and Bismarck) in 1871. In this war, which we call the Franco Prussian war, France could not call on a united states or a great Britain who were staunchly its allies.
This great wish of the French to resurface to Imperial status was evidenced by the coronation of Napoleon II as Imperial leader of France (the second Empire) and the installment of Maximillian as "Emperor" of Mexico.
In turn, as Wilson was frightened by the "Zimmerman Telegrams" to Mexico in or around 1917, and having also been given a 'cassus belli" by the German institution of "unrestricted submarine warfare" and the close on sinking of the "Lusitania" (which has been, correctly I think, accused by Germany of injecting allied war materials into the Western Front.). Was thereby induced into a war it did not want, but, looking in depth, did affect the national interests of America.
So, Putin equally wants to see Russia restored to its Imperial status, and is beginning to act accordingly.
As on British "squaddie" said regarding its "Camp Bastion" which comment could apply equally to a revivified Bagram Air Base: "can you thing of any power in the region that might want a fully operational airbase in this area?"
I can think of two, and I am really quite frightened.
The aircraft that buzzed the P-8 "posiedon" of which we spoke was no second string hand me down, but a very capable strike aircraft with adequate air to air self defense abilities.
Think on it would you?
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Re: Fatal Flaw?
Hey Jim
I haven't seen The Lives of Others yet, but I'm not really sold on the other examples you mentioned.
In Zombieland, I would say that Columnbus is definitely the protagonist, rather than the girls (they even serve as antagonists, albeit briefly). When the girls go their own way and wind up in trouble, he's the one who decides to go look for them and guilt trips Tallahassee into helping him. He is the proactive character.
I dont buy that the girls are the protagonists by virtue of tryng to reach the safety of the West Coast. Only the younger of the two girls actually believes that there is safety left in their world. All the characters share the same goal, which is simple survival, and trying to make sense of the new world they find themselves in.
With The Terminator, I see Reese's role as being similar to Obi-Wan's in Star Wars. He's there to protect the protagonist (Sarah Connor) and fill her in on the bigger world that has just opened up to her. If you take the Joseph Campbell slant, Reese is The Wise Old Man, teaching Sarah how to make the explosives is his handing out the Magical Weapons, just like Obi-Wan with the lightsaber.
And just as with Star Wars, it is the protagonist (Sarah Connor) who vanquishes the Antagonist (The Terminator) with the wisdom and weapons given to them by the mentor figure.
On a completely unrelated note, I have discovered that I cannot type the words Sarah Connor, without hearing Arnold Schwarzenegger saying it in my head.
Re: Fatal Flaw?
In The Terminator, that would make The Terminator the Protagonist because what it really really wants is to kill Sarah Connor. In fact, it's the sole purpose of it's existence. And this would make Reese the Antagonist, because he is standing in the way of that goal.
I know this is surely something of an oversimplification of what you're trying to teach, but I think I can see why the OP was getting a bit muddled up.
Re: Fatal Flaw?
So Rik - internal struggle
Lazlo - external struggle
External struggles (for a noble cause) are surely what indicate a protagonist?
Lazlo was prepared to sacrifice his life for the struggle
Rik didn't stick his neck out... etc etc
But Rik has an ARC , while Lazlo doesn't. Does that make Rik the true Protag, AND MC? Or just the MC. ?
If Lazlo is just the mentor who gives Rik (other than his wife) the call to adventure, then the whole movie is just a first ACt
THANKS Instant :D You came to the same conclusion I did for the same reasons. :)
Re: Fatal Flaw?
No, you could definitely convince me. I've been wrong before. You can search "Children of Men" on my site for a good example where a reader pointed out flaws in my initial analysis. My initial understanding of "The Wrestler" was wrong as well. (As was my use of "Casablanca" as not being an adaptation).
I guess this goes back to my initial reason for popping my head in here: the confusion some writers encounter when they try to write Main Characters who don't drive the efforts towards resolving the story's central problem. Save the Cat! and McKee require that writers write "willful protagonists" - this runs counter to some writer's intuition and runs up against some of the films I provided as examples.
A neophyte writer trying to write "Casablanca" might struggle with the idea that he has a character that doesn't stick his neck out for anyone yet also has to be responsible for driving the plot forward. While you could argue that Rick does some of this towards the end of the film, in the beginning he could care less.
That's why I think it is important that writers find comfort in knowing that they can separate out the concepts of Protagonist and Main Character if they want to. You don't have to. There are great films where they are one and the same (Up In The Air, The Wrestler, Silence of the Lambs, Braveheart, The Godfather, and so on), but there are many who start out writing their story, then find they struggle with who is really driving things and who the audience feels they are.
Understanding the difference between the two opens up a world of possibilities.
Re: Fatal Flaw?
Rick hides the letters; Rick refuses to admit he has them (risking his own neutral status by doing so); Rick tells his band to go ahead and play the French National Anthem, getting his club shut down in the process (Laszlo asks, but they won't do it unless Rick tells them to); Rick decides to give the letters to Laszlo so he can flee to safety; then he comes up with and executes the plan to get Laszlo and Ilsa to safety, again, risking his own life and freedom.
(Besides, the letters aren't what the movie is about - they're the MacGuffin.)
Re: Fatal Flaw?
Rik's actions with the national anthem was reactive, he didn't initiate it the episode.
Rik is deffinitely the hero of his internal struggle, then becomes the hero of the external struggle - both protag and MC.
Actually, I guess that the final image of Rik walking off into the 'sunset' with renault (instead of Lazlo flying into the blue with Ilsa, or Lazlo & Rik flying off into the blue withour that two-timing bitch Ilsa) underlines that the writer wanted us to see Rik as the hero - and therefore the Protag.
I guess you're right after all :)
Re: Fatal Flaw?
No matter what the last image would have been, Rick's the protag. You could have ended it with Ilsa looking down and it wouldn't have changed that.
Earlier, Jim said "Once Lazlo gets those letters, the problems in the story are resolved and the film is over." This is really the crux of why I disagree - no one really gives a shit whether or not Laszlo gets the letters. No one is following that, or wondering if he will. They want to know if Rick will get Ilsa. When he makes that decision, the movie is over.
Do you think people walked out of the movie saying "thank god Laszlo got away" or "I can't believe that Rick put her on the plane"?
Re: Fatal Flaw?
Which is why Rick is the Main Character and Lazlo is the Protagonist.
There is a difference between the audience's reception of a story and the work of fiction itself.
Sure, the audience doesn't care much whether Lazlo gets away or not (I would argue that from a logical standpoint they do), but within the story itself -- the players inside of the story - they care a great deal. In fact, it is what everyone in the story is concerned with - from Strasser to Ugarte to Ilsa to everyone - those letters and who ends up with them are a very important concern to them and the source of problems within the story.
Stories are about resolving problems - understanding what those problems specifically are can help one determine how best to craft an effective argument for how to go about resolving them.
Your attachment to Rick as the only one the audience cares about speaks to the fact that he is the Main Character - that we are him throughout the course of the story (empathy).
As far as the confusion with the narrator, I think you're missing the point that these narrators have deep emotional issues going on with them that go far beyond just telling the story. The thematic concerns that Red and Scout deal with are an essential part of the story's meaning - they are not separate from it. Scout deals with her own personal problems with racism (in her dealings with Boo) and Red deals with his own personal issues stemming from the fact that he has become institutionalized. These very personal viewpoints on the story's central problem are reflected in the larger overall story that everyone is concerned with (the racist attitudes present in the trial in Mockinbird, and the corrupt hopeless situation that keeps Andy unjustly locked away).
The Protagonist carries the logical argument of the story, the Main Character carries the emotional argument.
Re: Fatal Flaw?
Nobody has talked about the protag's character arc, unless I missed it. Rick went from a guy who doesn't give a **** about anything, to a guy whose unrequited love pops into his life, stirring deep emotions, to a hero who sacrifices his love and happiness for the greater cause.
Did Laslo arc?
Many stories have protags who don't arc. But can you have a non-protag character who arcs as much as Rick did?
The story was mostly about Rick. We witnessed his journey. We identified with him throughout the story. Not so with Laslo.
Re: Fatal Flaw?
Casablanca is a love story between Rick and Ilsa, not a story about a resistance leader trying to escape the Nazis. To say that Laszlo is the protagonist is missing the point of the entire movie. We empathize with Rick because we're following his journey as he pursues Ilsa.
You could design a movie where Laszlo is the protag, and his girlfriend falls in love with the man who has the key to his escape and he has to figure out how to use that to get out of the country... but that's not even remotely close to the movie that exists.
One other point:
Die Hard. McClane is completely reactive regarding the robbery: he stumbles into it, and by luck isn't captured. He doesn't try to solve it himself - he waits for help, calls for help, kills in self defense.. it's not until late in the movie that he actually actively tries to solve the problem himself.
The contents of the vault and whether or not Hans ends up with them is the problem that everyone in the story concerns themselves with: Hans, McClane, the police and FBI. Hans begins the story by actively showing up and seeking the vault, then spends the story overcoming obstacles to the money.
Obviously Hans isn't the protag, but your definition certainly leaves that possibility open.
The mechanics of the MacGuffin (the contents of a vault, letters of transit) shouldn't define who you label your protag.
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Aquarius: Studying the Salt of the Sea
NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius ascends to the heavens this June. Find out how it can help answer questions about climate change.
Transcript:Well, we're talking about salt in the ocean. We're talking about pretty much the same salt that you use in cooking: the chemical known as sodium chloride. You've been to the beach.
You've gone swimming in the ocean. You know that the ocean is salty. What most people don't recognize is that the concentration of salt, or what we call salinity, varies quite a bit from one part of the ocean to another. When water evaporates off the sea surface and goes into the atmosphere, that makes the water saltier, because you're taking fresh water out and you're leaving more salt behind.
As the minerals, or the salts, circulate around in the oceans, it moves heat around. Heat that's carried by the ocean affects the atmosphere. The changes of the atmosphere and the sea surface temperature is coupled together. It controls climate.
We have measured sea surface temperature. We've measured winds over water, sea level rise, color of the ocean, but yet we do not know one of the fundamental properties that affects climate, which is the density of the concentration of salt in the ocean. Salinity is one of the missing parameters, never been measured from space before.
We have no salinity samples at all from parts of the world, particularly in the southern hemisphere, in the South Pacific and South Atlantic and Southern Indian Ocean. So there is a big data gap.
This mission called Aquarius is one of the most exciting missions to date. It measures how salty the ocean is from space.
As you take a pinch of salt and put it in a gallon of water, we can measure that kind of sensitivity of salt from 408 miles above the Earth. In seven days, we'll map the entire Earth, and go back to the same point, measuring it over and over again. And we'll monitor over time how the changes and variability are. By having salinity information from space, we'll provide this missing link and make better predictions on the climate change and climate model.
All the measurements that we make in the Earth sciences program within NASA are really to better understand the climate processes that are happening now, how we can use that information to better predict the future, so we can plan better. Salinity is one of those measurements that we need to fill an important gap to do that very thing. That's how it affects you and me and the person next door.


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For Context Read: How Ferguson Went From Middle Class to Poor in a Generation
"In 1990, Ferguson, Mo. was a middle class suburban enclave north of St. Louis with a population about three-quarters white. In 2000, the town's population was roughly split between black and white with an unemployment rate of 5%. By 2010, the population was two-thirds black, unemployment had exceeded 13%, and the number of residents living in poverty had doubled in a decade.
The situation there is "really not so different than the rest of St. Louis County," said Dr. Norm White, a criminologist with the Saint Louis University School of Social Work. "The problems we saw in the urban core have become the problems of the suburban umbrella."
"The same decay that sparked unrest in one Missouri town is taking place across the country."
On the surface it looks like what's going on in Ferguson is all about racism, but it's important that we have a look at the fact that Ferguson's poverty and unemployment rate is worse than the national average.
"Ferguson is just the place that the scab got pulled off," White, the criminologist, tells TIME. "The reason why this is so intense is that there are a lot of these little communities that have been left almost to rot. Physically the buildings are falling down. There are no social service programs."
What can we really expect from people who are struggling in unimaginable ways such as living in poverty and homelessness? How come it's so difficult for us to talk about the fact that having little to no money, with no end to the struggling in sight, how come this is not seen as a motivating factor embedded within the anger and the fears of the people of Ferguson?
I think mostly people are desperate and scared because they don't know what to do or where to turn for help with their day to day struggles to survive. So when someone is killed like in a case like this, all hell brakes lose and still, we have the nerve to overlook the facts as their thrown in our face of how Poverty leads to War…
"The greater the racial income gap, the deeper are the divisions between black and white workers, and the weaker are the unions and class solidarity." Michael Reich; Study of The Journal of Human Resources
Truth is, what's happening in Ferguson looks like war because it is war and it's important to see the facts. And the fact is, our current Money System has failed us and we have to realize that what's happening in Ferguson is happening in one way or another all around our world. The poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer and it's important that we get clear on the fact that War is Not, never has been and never will be the solution.
The solution will no doubt require us to come together as a Group, to Support each other in bringing about a Money System that acts according to what's best for all.
Investigate 'The Living Income Guaranteed Proposal'
"There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it." MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
"I was very much clearly convinced; in spite of what I saw in the police which was murders and violence and all kinds of things. I saw that more than just an outflow, more just an outflow from the social condition and the lack of resources, the lack of money that caused most of the conditions that I have witnessed in the police. People simply did many of the things out of desperation." Bernard Poolman
More reading about Ferguson: It's Now Guns Vs. Cameras in Ferguson


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A roundtable chat with Kate Bosworth and Danny Huston of "The Warrior's Way"
The movies often make for strange companions, if not actual bedfellows. So it was that a bunch of entertainment writers at the junket for the genre-blending martial-arts western fantasy, "The Warrior's Way," met with a pair of actors with a definite air of beauty-and-the-beast about them.
Kate Bosworth is, oddly enough, the beauty of the pair. Perhaps best known as Lois Lane in the unfairly maligned "Superman Returns," Bosworth has appeared in a number of films, including a solid appearance as Sandra Dee in Kevin Spacey's offbeat Bobby Darin biopic, "Beyond the Sea." She also played porn star John Holmes' teenage girlfriend in the fact-based "Wonderland" and was the female lead in the gambling-themed hit, "21." Bosworth launched her career starring in the short-lived "Dawson's Creek" spin-off, "Young Americans," which wrapped in 2000 and followed that up with the lead role in the surfing-themed "Blue Crush" in 2002.
Danny Huston is often cast in the role of beastly types and authority figures, and usually a combination of both. He was the leader of the cold weather vampires in "30 Days of Night," a memorably creepy power broker in "Children of Men," and the mutant hating Col. William Stryker in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." He was also the despicably ultra-vicious desperado/gangleader brother of Guy Pearce in the 2005 mega-grime Australian western, "The Proposition."
It's also mandatory that I mention that Huston is about as "Hollywood royalty" as people get, being the son of acting and directing great John Huston, whose best remembered acting role remains as the deeply evil Noah Cross of "Chinatown" and whose iconic films included "The Maltese Falcon," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," and, still going strong decades later, "Wise Blood" and "Prizzi's Honor." That additionally means that Danny Huston's grandfather was the early Hollywood star and character actor Walter Huston and his half-sister is Oscar-winner Angelica Huston. Still in his forties, he also was a director early on in his career, helming 1988's "Mr. North."
Bosworth and Huston were there to promote their roles in "The Warrior's Way," which was released this last weekend in a modest wide release. In the film, the first English language starring vehicle for Korean superstar Jang Dong-gun, Bosworth plays Lynne, a knife-thrower in training bent on revenge against the man who killed her family and attacked her. Naturally, that man is the Colonel (Huston), a mask-wearing evildoer who was badly disfigured by Lynne as a young girl, so it's clear these two just aren't going to get along.
Off screen, however, the two got along just fine as they sang the praises of the film which none of us entertainment journalist types had actually seen. About 10-15 minutes worth of clips had been shown to us the night before, prior to a very pleasant reception with some really delicious sushi and yakitori treats. The next day we got more American style fare at the Beverly Hilton. Did I mention that the food is often the best part of a press day?
The conversation started around some of the costumes used in the film. One journalist asked Kate Bosworth if she enjoyed the costuming aspect of movie-making. This might have turned into a very interesting piece if she'd said, "God, no, I hate it!" But, of course, that's not how she feels.
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I love this time of year. It is starting to get very nice outside, golf courses are opening, and my life has been crazy busy. I will not bore with that, because I am sure we ll can say the same thing – but it has been worse than usual.
I stayed up way to late watch the double-overtime game between Xavier and Kansas State. What a crazy game. It was maybe one of the best games I have seen all year. Just as it should be!
Thoughts of Madness
I have been so busy that I did not even get invitations out for my bracket from CBSSports.com out to all the people involved, and I have had it for 3 years. Oh well. On my work brackets, I am boarder-line screwed. I picked Kansas to win and well….DAMN IT!
Here is my quick run down of how things are going at this moment.
No. 1 Seeds – DAMN IT! We have lost the two teams most thought would make it to the Final Four. I wonder how long it will take for Kentucky's Final Four appearance to be erased due to violations of something?!
Ohio State looks tough. They are not deep, but they may have the best starting five left in the tourney and the match-up with Tennessee will be showcase some very good match-ups. UT's Wayne Chism vs. OSU's Dallas Lauderdale. UT's Scottie Hopson vs. OSU's Evan Turner.
General Theme of Tourney: Playing as a Team > Team of Talent.
Northern Iowa did want NDSU was not able to do last year. I think they can run to the Final Four – we will find out tonight. This is not the Michigan State from last season – even with Kalin Lucas. I remember Ben Jacobson when he was playing at UND – I liked him then.
West Virginia is looking legit and I still not sure why and a Match-up with Kentucky will be physical!
St. Mary's has legit size and skill, I could see them getting past Baylor and Duke. First things first. Baylor and St. Mary match-up very well. but remember the "General Theme of the Tourney".
Duke has beat Purdue the last two times they met, and that was with Robbie Hummel. Duke is too tough in the front-court – don't think that has been said in the last 5 years.
Final Four Predictions – West Virginia, Ohio State, Kansas State and the toughest call…Baylor. Not very legit when I do it so far into the game, but I don't care. I will probably end up one-for-four.
I have enjoyed watching this tournament more than many in the past. There have been great games all over the place regardless of seeding. My brother and I were talking about a month a go and we said that any one team in the Top 25 could either win, or loose in the two rounds.
I am not sure we have seen the playing field so level as it has been this year.


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As he was on his way to the maid's room, he came across a little boy who would tell this story for the rest of his life.
The boy looked at Hugo in awe. The boy thought this old man with white hair and beard was God.
Hugo pointed to his erect penis and told the boy that it was rare in someone his age. Then he took the boy's hand and put it on his penis and said, "When you grow up, tell people you held Victor Hugo's machine." (I hope my translation of the French is accurate.)
The man was amazing.
UPDATE: I checked Paul Johnson's Creators to see if I got the story right. I got a few details wrong. In the interest of accuracy, I quote Paul Johnson at length:
When I was a young man living in Paris in the early 1950's, I was given an unforgettable picture of the elderly Hugo's sexuality by an old society gentleman who, as a small boy, had been a visitor at a chateau, along with Hugo, in 1884. In those days, children and women servants had rooms on the attic floor, which was uncarpeted and Spartan (the male servants slept in the basement). He said he got up very early one summer morning, being bored, and went out into the corridor, the unvarnished boards under his feet, the strong sunlight slanting through the windows at a low angle, picking out the motes of dust. He was, perhaps, four. Suddenly an old man hove into sight, striding purposefully along, white-bearded, eyes penetrating and fierce, wearing a nightshirt. The boy did not know at the time, but surmised later, thinking of the episode, that Victor Hugo had risen early too, having noted a pretty serving girl handing plates at dinner the night before; had, possibly, made an assignation with her; and anyway was now in search of her bedroom. The old man, whom the boy thought was possibly God, paused in his stride, seized the boy's hand, and, lifting his nightshirt, placed the hand on his large, rampant member and said: "Tiens, mon petit. Il parait que c'est tres rare a mon age. Alors, en temps d'avenir tu auras le droit a dire a tes petits-enfants, que tu a tenu en ton p'tit main, le machin de Victor Hugo, poete!" Then he lowered his nightshirt and strode off down the corridor, in search of his prey.
In a footnote Johnson adds:
The story may be bien trouve rather than exact. When I lived in Paris, there were still people who had know acquaintances of Hugo and his family, and such stories abounded. I have forgotten the name of my informant, but he had held a high post in the administration of the former royal palaces of France.
(I'm sorry I don't know how to do the diacritical marks in the french. Anyone who can give me a literal translation of the french, I would appreciate it.)
I believe the story because I want to believe it. It's too great not to be true!
Incidentally, before I remembered where I read that story, I searched my books looking for it. One book I looked in was The Essential Victor Hugo. This book has selections of Hugo's poetry and essays, but none of his plays and no passages from his fiction that show his greatest talent, his plot writing. It is remarkable that a book called The Essential Victor Hugo has everything except the essential Victor Hugo.


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Dirt Camp organizers are excited to bring you the best season of Trek Dirt Series camps to date. The Series will be starting in Santa Cruz, California, finishing in Fruita, Colorado, and traveling to fantastic locations in Utah, Oregon, Washington, Alberta, and BC in between.
There are a lot of familiar stops on the 2013 schedule, and a few new things in there as well.
After fielding requests for several years, organizers will be running a camp in the Silver Star Bike Park, in BC's Okanagan Valley, this year. They've been building cross-country trails up there recently too, so that'll be a weekend for DH and XC riders alike.
The Series is also reintroducing a co-ed camps in the US. It is the second camp of the season, so part of the initial California trip. Did you know that the male / female split at co-ed camps is nearly 50 / 50?
Dirt Camp registration so far has been through the roof. For February this year numbers were 60% higher than last. Almost 400 people have already signed up for camps in 2013, so that's a lot of people keen on mountain biking and looking forward to improving their skills this year.
A couple of camps have already sold out, and a handful of others have less than ten spots still open. If there's a particular location or date you'd like to attend, planning earlier rather than later would be great. The full calendar is our on the website, with easy online registration.
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It's looking so far like this was a good week to play the Saints. That's a jinx-type comment I realize, but so far anyway, our offense is in gear and looking really good. We really needed a game like this to get the offense organized and clicking. Pleased so far.
Offense in gear
4 Responses to "Offense in gear"
Dave in Tucson Says:
September 30, 2012 at 4:43 pm |
The way the Saints D has been playing, any week is a good week to be facing them. They've been epically bad so far.
Dave in Tucson Says:
September 30, 2012 at 5:13 pm |
Another terrible call. How was that catch not overturned?
Eesh. 😦
CindyV Says:
September 30, 2012 at 5:40 pm |
The NFL better address these push-offs not being called. It's getting disgusting to watch.


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Cyprus is about to prove what anyone with common sense already knew, that Greece will not be the only country requiring haircuts on sovereign bonds.
Today the Financial Times posted news of a Radical rescue proposal for Cyprus
A radical new option for the financial rescue of Cyprus would force losses on uninsured depositors in Cypriot banks, as well as investors in the country's sovereign bonds, according to a confidential memorandum prepared ahead of Monday's meeting of eurozone finance ministers.
The proposal for a "bail-in" of investors and depositors, and drastic shrinking of the Cypriot banking sector, is one of three options put forward as alternatives to a full-scale bailout. The ministers are trying to agree a rescue plan by March, to follow the presidential elections in Cyprus later this month.
The new plan has not been endorsed by its authors in the European Commission or by individual eurozone members. The memo warns that "the risks associated with this option are significant", including a renewed danger of contagion in eurozone financial markets, and premature collapse in the Cypriot banking sector.
It would reduce Cyprus's outstanding debt to just 77 per cent of economic output, compared with 140 per cent in the current full bailout plan.
Labelled "strictly confidential" and distributed to eurozone officials last week, the memo says the radical version of the plan – including a "haircut" of 50 per cent on sovereign bonds – would shrink the Cypriot financial sector, now nearly eight times larger than the island's economy, by about one-third by 2015.
But the authors warn such drastic action could restart contagion in eurozone financial markets, and put forward two more cautious alternatives.
Curious Thing About That "Full Bailout"
Notice how the existing "Full Bailout" still leaves Cyprus with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 140%. To get to an also unsustainable ratio of 77% requires a radical new plan.
Of course when that fails as well, there will be still more radical plans.
Russian Connection
Steen Jakobsen, chief economist for Saxo Bank in Denmark has some additional thoughts via email, as follows:
This morning hot topic has been a Financial Times article: Radical rescue proposed for Cyprus which indicates that depositors as well as investors in the country sovereign bonds stand to lose up to 2/3.
Cyprus is in need of approximately 17 bln. EUR – and how to reduce the overall burden which will reach 140 percent by 2015 without a hair-cut.- EU Finance minister meets tonight and need to secure deal before March 1st, 2013.
These are the leaked three options on the table:
- Bail-in (the radical version) – Reducing outstanding debt to 75-ish percent via hair-cut which will hit foreign depositors and bond holders. This will hard on the big investor Russia.
- Bail-in (Light version) – Only junior debt holders will be hurt, not bank depositors – this would however prolong the reduction of the banking sector by ten years – the suggestion will include increase corporate tax from 10.0% to 12.5% and withholding tax on capital income to 28%
- A classic ESM structure – selling the 'nationalized' Cypriot banks to the ESM and secure funding. Problem being ESM is not allowed, yet, to do direct funding of banks.
The political decision is really down to how big a reduction Cyprus need. Some people argues for 100 percent by end of 2015, others say it should be by 2020.
The deep irony of course being, that when we had the hair-cut on Greece, we were told Greece was a one-off and it will never be repeated – Well, Dr. Watson, It's elementary: Other people money is always easy to spend.
Making things complicated is two issues: Cyprus goes to the polls on February 17 and 24th – As we have seen across Europe it looks like a change guard: Cyprus opposition leads extends lead week before vote.
Cyprus is seen by many countries as tax heaven for Russian money, so bailing out Cyprus equates to "helping Russia investors" – We have no view on the issue but note how Asmussen, ECB Board member, is taking the high road in German press: ECB's Asmussen sees Cyprus bailout by end-March.
It's clearly a concern for market that Greece was not, after all, a one-off. The radical version could reignite fundamentals issue in Europe and as we have written in our Stress Indicators recently: Risk off looks more and more likely.
We suggest securing profit and to reduce overall risk- mainly in EUR, JPY and major European indices. The deal will probably only be done at last minute, but it leaves us "hanging" for another two-three weeks, and one thing the market does not like is increased political tail-risk.
Safe travels,
Cyprus Debt
Curiously, "Government bonds from Cyprus seems unaware of any potential hair-cut" notes Jakobsen.
Thus for now, it appears the intent is to bail out Russia at the expense of Cyprus businesses and taxpayers on the misguided notion that will prevent "contagion".
Mike "Mish" Shedlock


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Have you ever had an authentic San Francisco "tempeh taco"? They are hearty, healthy, delicious, and oh so easy to make.
I'd love to take credit for the invention of the tempeh taco, but that honor belongs to my old roommate. If you ever get to San Francisco and manage to find him, make sure you ask him to whip some up!
Now, I would love to enlighten my clever and efficacious readers with a tale about how the tempeh taco singlehandedly shaped centuries of British culinary history. Maybe I'd add an epilogue that chronicles the exploits of the tempeh-loving diaspora now in the United States. But I don't think the British ate very much tempeh in those days.
However, tempeh-tacos broach another question in the history of food: the history of "substitutions." Now, substitutions are timeless facts of cookery. We make use of them all the time: when we want something healthier, something tastier … or when we're just too lazy to go to the store.
How might one write a history of the substitute?
On the one hand, the substitute provided men of limited means with vicarious enjoyment that would otherwise be out of their reach. Shortly after turtle feasting took the British public by storm during the 1750s, "mock turtle" made its culinary debut. It was made from calves brains and forced meat and dressed up with a few Creole influences, such as Madeira and cayenne pepper, to remind people of the real thing. Indeed, mock turtle wasn't all that different from "calves head hashed:" an older traditional stand-by. It used similar ingredients, similar methods of preparation and required the same amount of labor to prepare.[1] Calling the dish "mock turtle," however, implies some degree of culinary expertise, a familiarity with real turtle, and a finished product that is somehow more than the simple sum of its ingredients. There was nothing very embarrassing or humiliating about this substitute at all. In fact, it was often served alongside real turtle!
By the turn of the 19th century, however, it seemed as if the substitute's status began to decline. War, a few bad harvests and impending bread riots prompted social 'reformers' to devise all kinds of wacky substitutes for bread. The pamphlet below, published in 1796, included an entire glossary of underutilized comestibles that that were sure to please the pauper's palate. "Dogstone" soup, anyone?
Historians of this age have also linked edible substitutions to the abstracted impersonality of industrial life.[2] As men and women became increasingly disconnected from the food they ate, they came to be nourished on spurious imitations that, in society's eyes, did not even count as food, robbing them of the last vestiges of humanity.
The reigning king of all substitutes, unquestionably, was the potato. This is the Irish lumper, known colloquially as the "famine potato."
|A student recoiled in horror when she saw these warty, mutant potatoes.
"However might one peel such a thing?"
Yet the potato seemed to create even more controversy over substitutes. Potatoes grew like weeds, they were easy to store, and they didn't even require any preparation. In many ways they resembled fast food: simply boil and serve. Potatoes unarguably provided a lot of nutritional bang for the buck, yet they raised serious red flags even for the most well-meaning and morally upstanding 19th century social reformer. According to the literary critic Catherine Gallagher, there was something a little dirty and blasphemous about the fact that it was the "substitute for the very food that most commonly stood as a signifer for all food." Second, given the pauper's overly picky palate, how could one encourage the poor to choose tubers over wheat? And last, in a political climate where the mere sight of a poor person chowing down portended Malthusian apocalypse, reformers wondered whether all these edible substitutes were really such a good thing after all.[3]
Alas, noble readers. Have the processes of industrialization robbed the substitute of its soul? For many Britons, the most visceral (and painful) reminders of World War II were the fascinating edible inventions –– margarine, powdered eggs, snoek piquante –– that sought to artificially approximate feelings of culinary normalcy in war-time.[4] But perhaps we are today turning a culinary tide in the history of substitutions. After all, many of today's most expensive breads now regularly eschew glutinous wheat in favor of beets, turnips, almonds and rice …. the edible symbols of poverty at the turn of the 19th century.
How to Make Tempeh Tacos
What you need:
--1 package of tempeh (I like the flax kind from Whole Foods)
--Half of an onion, diced
--A handful of shiitakes, chopped
--A handful of shiitakes, chopped
--Corn tortillas
--Pumpkin or sunflower seeds
Sauté your onions, shiitakes and crumbled pieces of tempeh in a skillet with olive oil. Add add soy sauce in small intervals and mix vigorously. Add the kale last to the mixture … it tastes best when it retains a little crunch. In a separate sauce pan, sauté some pumpkin seeds in olive oil mixed with a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. Keep your eye on the pumpkin seeds … they'll keep browning well after you take them off the heat. Add the tempeh mixture on top of the corn tortilla. Now comes the magic. Reader, I know what you're thinking … salsa and hummus … together?! But these contrasting flavor properties actually work surprisingly well together. If you are lucky enough to live in the Bay Area, try to snag a bottle of salsa from Papalote Tacqueria. Spicy, creamy and smooth, this hummus-salsa combination is divine. Top with your crunchy-spicy cayenne-pumpkin seeds. Enjoy!
[1] To compare the two dishes, I drew on a recipe for "Calves Head Hashed" from Susanna Carter's The Frugal Housewife (London, 1759) and a recipe for "Mock Turtle" in Francis Collingwood's The Universal Cook (London, 1792.) Both call for many of the same ingredients, are around the same length, and involve the same number of "steps" to prepare the dish.
[2] See, for example, Sandra Sherman, Imagining Poverty: Quantification and the Decline of Paternalism (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001)
[3] The original, published in 1798, doesn't mention potatoes much, but by the time the 6th edition of the Essay on the Principle of Population came out in 1817, Malthus had added a bunch of extra sections devoted to potatoes in Ireland. The potato's many roles in British (and Irish) history are meticulously documented in Redcliffe Salaman's The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1949) an "oldie but a goodie" to say the least. But my favorite piece of potato-eating scholarship is Catherine Gallagher, "The Potato in Materialist Imagination" in Practicing New Historicism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
[4] See Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (London: Allan Lane, 2011). Also check out Ina Zweiniger-Bargeiolowska's Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls and Consumption 1939-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).


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(Here's North Carolina State's press release on its 2012 recruiting class.)
Twenty-three student-athletes will join the Wolfpack football program for 2012, including four who have been enrolled at NC State since January and a transfer from Colorado State, head coach Tom O'Brien announced today. The class includes players at every position on offense and defense.
"Our staff is very excited about the signing class of 2012," said O'Brien, who has led the Wolfpack to the third-best record in the ACC over the past two seasons. "We went into this recruiting year with the intention of adding talent at every position, on both sides of the ball. We are at the point now where we are signing to build a team, not rebuild a position, and we are adding quality depth."
The class includes six defensive linemen, three linebackers, four defensive backs, four offensive linemen, two wide receivers, one tight end, one running back and two quarterbacks.
"It's a long, tall, very athletic class," O'Brien continued. "Many of these young men were team captains and team leaders, which means they are the type of selfless players who will come in here with a goal of winning a championship. Seven of the signees attended our camp, so we have really had a chance to get to know them and their character."
The majority of the class hails from State's traditional recruiting footprint, with eight signees from North Carolina high schools, six from Georgia and others from South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
NC State will open spring practice on March 23 and will conclude on April 21 with the annual Kay Yow Spring Game at 1 p.m.
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown High School/Last School
Deylan Buntyn* DT 6-4 330 Havelock, N.C. Havelock HS/New Mexico Military Institute
Robert Caldwell LB 6-3 235 Twentynine Palms, Calif. Twentynine Palms HS/College of the Desert
Niles Clark DB 5-10 173 Marietta, Ga. Lassiter HS
Marchez Coates DB 5-11 172 Pomfret, Md. McDonough HS
Drew Davis LB 6-3 230 Raleigh, N.C. Broughton HS
Eddie Gordan OL 6-2 305 Boiling Springs, S.C. Boiling Springs HS
Xavier Griffin WR 6-3 185 Newark, Del. Newark HS
David Grinnage TE 6-5 230 Newark, Del. Newark HS
Charlie Hegedus WR 6-2 195 Marietta, Ga. Lassiter HS
k'Hadree Hooker DT 6-2 285 Deep Run, N.C. South Lenoir HS
J.J. Jones DB 6-4 205 Lithonia, Ga. Martin Luther King HS
Bryce Kennedy* OL 6-4 285 Southern Pines, N.C. Pinecrest HS
Tyler Knox DE 6-4 225 Myrtle Beach, S.C. Myrtle Beach HS
Quincy McKinney* OL 6-4 300 Columbus, Ga. Carver HS/Fork Union Military Academy
Desmond Owino DE 6-5 235 Nairobi, Kenya Sanderson HS
M.J. Salahuddin LB 6-2 192 Fayetteville, N.C. Jack Britt HS
Josh Sessoms DB 6-3 185 Bailey, N.C. Southern Nash HS
Manny Stocker* QB 6-3 200 Coatesville, Pa. Coatesville Area HS
Pete Thomas QB 6-5 225 El Cajon, Calif. Valhalla HS/Colorado State
Shadrach Thornton RB 6-1 200 Hinesville, Ga. Liberty County HS
John Tu'uta OL 6-2 325 Fredericksburg, Va. Fork Union Military Academy
Kenderius Whitehead DE 6-4 220 Lithonia, Ga. Martin Luther King HS
Joe Wright DE 6-7 235 Greenville, N.C. Rose HS


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Pathfinder Services of Huntington, Ind., honored individuals and organizations within the communities they serve at their annual community recognition dinner Tuesday evening at Huntington University. Chant Thompson from the Pathfinder Services Board of Directors was the Master of Ceremonies for the event.
At the dinner, Bill Horoho, the 2012 Herbert D. LaMont Award recipient, and Diane and Brian Adams, the daughter and grandson of Kay LaMont presented the prestigious Herbert D. LaMont award to Nancy and Keith Hartley. Keith Hartley is the District Manager of SuperWash and currently serves on the Pathfinder Services Board of Directors, the organization's Marketing and Media Committee as well as the Executive Committee. Additionally, Nancy and Keith Hartley have been very involved in Special Olympics in Huntington County.
The Pathfinder Services Board of Directors gives the LaMont award annually in honor of the late Herbert D. LaMont, who was a major force in the development of services for individuals with disabilities in Huntington County.
Bill and Barbara Hancher presented the Timothy Hancher Direct Services Award to Amy Rakoczy, Direct Support Professional for Pathfinder Services since 1999. Bill Hancher, along with his wife Barbara initiated the Timothy Hancher Direct Services Award, honoring a Pathfinder staff person who has gone "above and beyond" in providing direct services to the Pathfinder clients. The award was founded in memory of the Hancher's son, Timothy, who was born with severe developmental and physical disabilities and passed away in 1996 at the age of 26.
At the dinner, the Pathfinder Services Board of Directors Vice Chairman, Randy Sizemore, presented Outgoing Board Members with a Perske Print in appreciation of their 6 years of service. Honored this year were Tom Geren who began with the Board in 2008. Geren has also served on the Housing Committee, Succession Planning Committee, and has been a representative to the Kids Kampus Advisory Board. Also recognized was Becky Gerhart for her years of service since 2008. Gerhart also served on the Marketing and Media Relations Committee as well as the Finance and Succession Planning Committees. In addition to receiving the LaMont Award, Keith Hartley was also honored for his 6 years of service on the Board. Hartley has also been on the Pathfinder Services Board since 2008 and has served as Chair of the Marketing and Media Relations Committee, on the Executive Committee and has been the Secretary of the Board. Dave McEowen, current Pathfinder Services Board of Directors Chairman was thanked for his service since 2008 on the Board. McEowen has also served as the Chair of the Business Development Committee and on the Executive Committee.
At the dinner, Pathfinder Services gave Community Partner Awards to individuals and organizations that supported Pathfinder Services Inc. and their customers during the past fiscal year. Recipients include:
• Danielle Clements and Amanda Hartley of Huntington's American Legion Post #85 for their support and service by hosting an annual Christmas party for the individuals served by Pathfinder Community Supports.
• Patty Hladik and Lisa Wissinger were recognized for their support of Pathfinder Kids Kampus. Patty and Lisa are very helpful in creating the Pathfinder Kids Kampus float for the Heritage Days Parade and other activities for the children served at Pathfinder Kids Kampus.
• Danny Lambert was recognized for his support of individuals served by Pathfinder Community Supports in Wabash and his involvement with Special Olympics of Wabash County.
• Walgreens of Huntington, Columbia City, and Fort Wayne on Creighton Avenue were honored for their partnership with Pathfinder Resource Connection throughout the year.
• Jennifer Stoler from B100 was recognized for her support of the individuals served by Pathfinder Community Supports in Plymouth.
• The Linville family was recognized for their generosity to the Huntington community in their time of grief by donating Sweet Deals Consignment Store to Pathfinder Services.
• Cline Transfer was honored for its partnership in providing storage space and delivery services for Pathfinder OutSource Manufacturing. Herb Scott accepted the award.
The keynote speaker for the evening was Alex Valdez, who can't see. He may be blind, but he also can't see obstacles stopping him from laughing his way into the hearts of people so they can be inspired to go beyond their perceived fears and limitations. Alex is a real pioneer having been the first comedian with a disability to gain national recognition as the winner of the first Norman Lear Comedy Competition. He has won the hearts and admiration of his audiences of all ages and today he is recognized as one of the best and entertaining disability awareness speakers and trainers.
Alex's goal is "not only to help audiences accept his own and others' disAbilities, but to recognize that while we may all appear very different on the outside, on the inside we are all very much the same". His message combined life experiences and years of diversity and disability training. Alex's words were entertaining as well as inspiring.
Pathfinder Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit human services organization based in Huntington, where it was founded in 1966. Pathfinder Services envisions a community in which all people are valued and accepted and have control over their own destinies. In addition to Huntington County, Pathfinder Services also has office locations in Allen, Marshall, Wabash and Whitley Counties. For more information about Pathfinder Services, Inc. please visit www.pathfinderservices.org